DIAMANDA GALAS 'DIVINE PUNISHMENT' LP KHEMMIS baroque and Indian music and

baroque and Indian music and you want to make everything join together

Don't Stop Me Now

Corpsegrinder)

Entirely self-produced by the band themselves

Unlike the '80s reissues which were cut from the original analogue master tapes

DIAMANDA GALAS 'DIVINE PUNISHMENT' LP KHEMMIS baroque and Indian music andLABEL: Intravenal Sound Op UPDATED VINYL RELEASE DATE: 6 16 2023 ORIGINAL RELEASE DATE: 1986 VARIANT: Black Vinyl LP On June 30, 1986, the same day that Diamanda Gals's The Divine Punishment was released, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of Georgia's so called sodomy law in Bowers v. Hardwick, criminalizing consensual sex between men. At the time, about 15, 000 people were known to have died of AIDS in the U. S. alone, with little